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PRODUCERS NOTE: Due to yet another technical glitch, the original posting of todays episode contained a good deal of Dave's ranting about the equipment which was not meant for broadcast. It's been fixed. Mea culpa. Sorry if it upset you. But... he's a sailor.. and let's face it... the computer deserved it. we apologize if you were offended and all the other boilerplate nonsense that gets said by people who want to pretend that they are sorry without actually being sorry. S**t happens. Deal with it...
This episode of What the Frock? starts the way too many shows do, with technology refusing to cooperate and patience running on fumes. Audio levels argue, equipment misbehaves, and somewhere in the middle of it all, two hosts decide to press forward anyway. Because if you wait for everything to work perfectly, you never hit record.
Once the dust settles, the conversation takes a turn into the strange territory of modern belief. Not faith, not philosophy, but the everyday flood of claims that somehow pass for truth. Stories about impossible technology, exaggerated headlines, and ideas that sound like they were scribbled on a napkin at two in the morning and then released into the wild.
What follows is part discussion, part disbelief, and part running commentary on how easily the unbelievable becomes accepted when it is repeated often enough. There is humor, there is skepticism, and there is that familiar question hanging in the air the entire time. Does this actually make sense?
It is not about having all the answers. It is about asking better questions, and maybe laughing a little while you do it.
By Dave Bowman and Roderick Cook4
66 ratings
PRODUCERS NOTE: Due to yet another technical glitch, the original posting of todays episode contained a good deal of Dave's ranting about the equipment which was not meant for broadcast. It's been fixed. Mea culpa. Sorry if it upset you. But... he's a sailor.. and let's face it... the computer deserved it. we apologize if you were offended and all the other boilerplate nonsense that gets said by people who want to pretend that they are sorry without actually being sorry. S**t happens. Deal with it...
This episode of What the Frock? starts the way too many shows do, with technology refusing to cooperate and patience running on fumes. Audio levels argue, equipment misbehaves, and somewhere in the middle of it all, two hosts decide to press forward anyway. Because if you wait for everything to work perfectly, you never hit record.
Once the dust settles, the conversation takes a turn into the strange territory of modern belief. Not faith, not philosophy, but the everyday flood of claims that somehow pass for truth. Stories about impossible technology, exaggerated headlines, and ideas that sound like they were scribbled on a napkin at two in the morning and then released into the wild.
What follows is part discussion, part disbelief, and part running commentary on how easily the unbelievable becomes accepted when it is repeated often enough. There is humor, there is skepticism, and there is that familiar question hanging in the air the entire time. Does this actually make sense?
It is not about having all the answers. It is about asking better questions, and maybe laughing a little while you do it.

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